Abstract

which have the highest standards and may take the lead, and in another. this may be the case with the voluntary bodies, or with one particular group. In a country where all have good standards it is still more fortunate in that they can play effective complementary parts in an over-all scheme. On the one hand, one might find that statutory services played their most effective part in ensuring that no one sinks below a certain level, and ensuring that (once eligibility has been established) all shall be treated alike; while voluntary organisations, on the other hand, because they may have wider powers for treating individuals differently than is feasible within a body set up by Act of parliament, may ensure that other fonn of democracy which lies in treating unequals unequally. So far Councils are only functioning in Australia on a state basis. In England they are formed into a National Association. However I shall not deal here with the SUbject of 'Councils of Social Service Abroad' as it is so well described by Miss Player in 'Social Service' of June 1949. But is it too much to hope that the 'South Seas Parliament' which is to meet